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Company Shops Market Featured on WFMY

Farmers will be part-owners in the Co-op. They plan to sell produce, meats and other products.

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Alamance County, NC -- Farmers are teaming up to help their individual farms make money.

Growers in Alamance County plan to open Company Shops Market.

Farmers will be part-owners in the Co-op. They plan to sell produce, meats and other products.

So far, about 80 farmers paid memberships into the co-op. They have not picked a site.

"They know they are contributing to their local economy, they're supporting their local agriculture and they're doing a good turn for themselves," said Eliza MacLean, owner of Cane Creek Farm.

It could be more than a year before the store opens. The market is modeled after one in Pittsboro.

 

Source: WFMY News 2

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Charlie Sydnor is a rancher and doctor in North Carolina who used to be part of the mainstream cattle industry. For years, he raised cows to the appropriate size, then trucked them off to the feedlot to fatten up on grain before getting slaughtered.

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